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So, David Cameron plans to curb ‘fat cat’ pay with people power? Or rather, when you look into it, he plans to allow shareholders to be able to veto the pay awards of chief executives. I guess, shareholders may include…
Continue reading19:16 writing on the cold, clear winter days with the best light… t.co/sRwhTxYo # 19:34 Want a unique holiday experience? 2 miles from nearest neighbour, solid fuel stove, gas lighting and no electricity! t.co/1pYlJ7BO # 19:54 Heard on BBC Radio4…
Continue readingOne of my favourite books is The Children of Green Knowe, and one of the most magical adaptations I’ve seen was the BBC’s not often seen 1986 series. Four years ago emej and I were fortunate enough to visit the…
Continue readingFurther to my previous post, seeing that Stowe’s Gothic Temple is a holiday cottage, it reminds me of what I’ve always known as The Admiralty Lookout on Lundy Island… On an island only 3 miles long and ½ mile wide…
Continue readingFollowing on from the butchers yesterday we made our pilgrimage into Bicester for the vegetables but completely forgot to pick up our passport application forms… ggrrr! Emma had ordered some barerooted trees and shrubs from Buckingham Nurseries and so, as…
Continue reading13:45 really doesn’t like it when the server that you know is dying and you want rid of goes *cold* on you on a Friday morning… # 18:20: @MHarrison13 My next tip would be don’t let *writers block* stop you….
Continue readingIt was just a bit too stressful this morning at work. I was busy making some web updates, refreshed the page, and noticed that the news feed wasn’t working. I went to logon to the server remotely, but couldn’t so…
Continue readingToday’s posting is titled as the eleventh day of Christmas because that’s what I’ve always thought. You have 24 days in advent, followed by Christmas Day, and then the day after that is the first day of Christmas, and so…
Continue reading15:08 Why we all need to microchip our pets: Mog, lost from Kidlington found 30 miles away 11 days later t.co/NaD1Wioq \via @animalfinders # 15:14 *coughs* 53 pages of corrections and I’m there… apparently… #TheNovel #TheEndofAllWorlds # Automatically bleated by…
Continue readingIt has always bothered me, as a designer with a love of the most carefully crafted books that I am limited in the fonts that I can use on websites by what users are most likely to have installed on…
Continue reading21:01 has just discovered the typographic joys of Google webfonts: t.co/YUH99PmT – make the web beautiful again! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading22:40 isn’t hating the idea of work tomorrow but it will still be a bit of a wrench, and a shock to the old system… # 22:15 writes on the dark and blustery day: t.co/p6x4bLNT # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading~ This morning was dark; very dark. It always surprises me how dark January days are – darker even than the ever-decreasingly short ones of late December – something to do with the Earth’s shift and later sunrise times and…
Continue reading16:16 hates it when you sit down to read your book to discover that you’ve put the bookmark back in completely the wrong place… #reading # 18:28 finds that the time has come to cook a special bank holiday special…
Continue readingThis weekend we finally managed to “Christmas” Emma after the washout that was last Sunday, when we got down to the New Forest for New Year. We had roast beef dinner to see out the old year and then settled…
Continue reading00:51 Cribbage, scrabble and call my bluff to see in 2012. Happy New Year one and all! 🙂 # 18:07 counting up the annual book tally: t.co/2FE5Yzi2 #reading #books # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
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